The next day they take up canoing (sp?) and thanks to Aragorn and Boromir it turns into a race.
Aragorn has one boat with Arwen right behind him and Eowyn behind her. Eowyn's jealous of Arwen so then keeps "accidently" hitting Arwen's oar with her own.
Boromir's team is Faramir and Eomer, with Faramir trying to catch Eowyn's attention still, unsuccessfully. Eomer sees this and starts to keep an eye on Faramir.
A third boat is occupied by the four hobbits, with Merry and Pippin rowing like maniacs and Sam is looking squeamishly at the water. Frodo is trying to keep up with Merry and Pip but exhausts himself and has to breathe from his inhaler every now and then.
As they get closer to the finish line, Arwen gets annoyed with Eowyn and it turns into a cat fight with them hitting each other with their oars. Aragorn tries to break it up, and all the fighting has the boat rocking so hard the whole boat flips over.
Gollum was up to mischief and had driven a hole in one of the boats, thinking the hobbits would use it, and finally get back at the false tricksey hobbitses. Unfortunately Boromir's team got that boat, and they sunk.
It was just the hobbits by then, with M&P rowing at a feverish pace and Frodo and Sam trying to keep up, when Galadriel comes up from behind on her swan boat, sitting at front with a whistle, while Celeborn and Haldir are rowing with the rythm of her whistle.
Each one gets ahead of the other, but then the hobbits got a steady rythm also and therefore pulled ahead and won the race.
Someone else's turn! I'm tired.
[ October 07, 2003: Message edited by: Elwen_starmaiden ]
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